Rock the Boat

Rock the Boat

Yeah, Picasso and Hemingway wore them back in the day. But brash, dashing seafaring clothes that announce you as a cosmopolitan playboy are having their biggest moment ever here and now. Sail into style this summer like rising hip-hop dynamo A$AP Rocky

I once saw Harlem-born rapper A$AP Rocky silence a party of 150 people just so he could hear the ringer of his iPhone, which he'd misplaced. The people listened. His phone was found. Rocky's cocky ascension into stardom has been one part dope rhymes, one part highly evolved style. "I wanted to model when I was younger," he says. "I was always into clothes and shit." It's a fact that's constantly reinforced by his lyrics (Drop-crotch Jeremy Scott pants, bitch it's Hammer time) and by menswear blogs that practically worship him. "I'm the man on those things," Rocky gloats. "I don't really look at them. Well, I guess I do, but only when I'm looking at myself. I inspire me." And that's the third ingredient in his ascension: star power. The man behind hits like "Fuckin' Problems" has a cool so untouchable it landed him on a world tour with Rihanna and earned him the assurance that as long as he's got an army of fans, he'll never lose his phone again.—Mark Anthony Green

Catch the Wave

Right now, every store you walk into, from Tom Ford to A.P.C. to Gant, is channeling one look: the natty sailor. That means blinding whites, lots of layers, and enough stripes to make the girls go cross-eyed.